^ [a b c d e] Nickson 1998, s. 7 Originalcitat 1: "So later I was like, 'Well, where does this leave me? Am I a bad person?' You know. It's still not that common to be a multi-racial person, but I'm happy with the combination of things that I am."

^ Nickson 1998, s. 14 Originalcitat: "It's been difficult for me, moving around so much, having to grow up by myself... my parents divorced. And I always felt kind of different from everybody else in my neighborhoods. I was a different person ethnically. And sometimes, that can be a problem. If you look a certain way, everybody goes 'White girl', and I'd go, 'No, that's not what I am'."

^ Sischy, Ingrid (September 20, 2007). ”Mariah Carey: The Naked Truth From The World's Biggest Diva”. Interview: sid. 156–165. Originalcitat: "It was '97 and I was leaving my marriage [to Tommy Mottola], which encompassed my life. I was writing the song 'Butterfly' wishing that that's what he would say to me. There's a part that goes, 'I have learned that beauty/has to flourish in the light/wild horses run unbridled/or their spirit dies/you have given me the courage/to be all that I can/and I truly feel ...[sings] and I truly feel your heart will lead you back to me when you're ready to land.' At that point I really believed that I was going to go back to the marriage – I didn't think I was going to leave forever. But then the things that happened to me during that time caused me to not go back. Had it been, 'Go be yourself, you've been with me since you were a kid, let's separate for a while,' I probably would've."

^ Shapiro 2001, s. 104 Originalcitat: "I don't think that it's that much of a departure from what I've done in the past [...] It's not like I went psycho and thought I would be a rapper. Personally, this album is about doing whatever the hell I wanted to do."

^ Hoskyns, Barney (December 12, 1997). ”Mariah Carey - Butterfly”. Rolling Stone. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/butterfly-19971030. Läst August 19, 2011. Originalcitat: "It's not as if Carey has totally dispensed with her old saccharine, Houston-style balladry [...] but the predominant mood of 'Butterfly' is one of coolly erotic reverie. [... Except "Outside" the album sounds] very 1997. [...] Carey has spread her wings and she's ready to fly."

^ [a b c] Shapiro 2001, s. 135 Originalcitat: "Basically, a lot of you know the political situation in my professional career is not positive. It's been really, really hard. I don't even know if this message is going to get to you because I don't know if they want you to hear this. I'm getting a lot of negative feedback from certain corporate people. But I am not willing to give up."

^ [a b c] Vineyard, Jennifer (October 13, 2005). ”Mariah Carey Hospitalized For 'Extreme Exhaustion'”. MTV News. http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1445424/mariah-carey-hospitalized.jhtml. Läst March 29, 2011. Originalcitat: "I'm trying to understand things in life right now and so I really don't feel that I should be doing music right now. What I'd like to do is just a take a little break or at least get one night of sleep without someone popping up about a video. All I really want is [to] just be me and that's what I should have done in the first place ... I don't say this much but guess what, I don't take care of myself."

^ Walters, Barry (September 4, 2001). ”Marked Woman”. The Village Voice. http://www.villagevoice.com/2001-09-04/music/marked-woman/. Läst September 18, 2011. Originalcitat: "Carey's Strawberry Shortcake soul still provides the template with which teen-pop cuties draw curlicues around those centerless [Diane] Warren ballads [...] it's largely because of [Blige] that the new R&B demands a greater range of emotional expression, smarter poetry, more from-the-gut testifying, and less [sic] unnecessary notes than the squeaky-clean and just plain squeaky Mariah era. Nowadays it's the Christina Aguileras and Jessica Simpsons who awkwardly oversing, while the women with roof-raising lung power keep it in check when tune or lyric demands."